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7th January 2015, 03:58 PM
Got your obamacare insurance ;D ???
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Bankrupt government slashing payments to doctors by 43%; medicare patients to be rejected nationwide
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
If you recall, the entire purpose behind Obamacare, according to the president and the law's backers, was only to insure something like 14 or 15 million people, because at the time the measure was being debated, the vast majority of Americans -- well over 80 percent -- had health insurance. What's more, the bulk of those insured had private sector plans, and most were insured through employers; the number of Americans on taxpayer-subsidized coverage, like Medicaid, was minimal.
Obamacare is beginning to change that dynamic, however, as noted by the administration's new enrollment figures released a couple of weeks ago: According to CNN/Money, some 8.7 million more Americans are now enrolled in Medicaid as of August than were a year earlier. And Medicaid expansion is at the heart of the Affordable Care Act (though you would think, in a free-market economy, the goal of any health insurance reform effort would be to put more people into private-sector plans, not hook them on a taxpayer-subsidized plan).
There is no doubt that, because of the Affordable Care Act, more Americans are actually covered under health insurance. The bad news, however, is that the insurance "coverage" is going to be little more than coverage in name only.
Pseudo-coverage
As reported by The New York Times:
Just as millions of people are gaining insurance through Medicaid, the program is poised to make deep cuts in payments to many doctors, prompting some physicians and consumer advocates to warn that the reductions could make it more difficult for Medicaid patients to obtain care.
This is how the law was designed to "save money" -- by placing more Americans on a taxpayer-supported program, then cutting payments to the very doctors who were expected to see and treat the newly covered.
The Times continued:
The Affordable Care Act provided a big increase in Medicaid payments for primary care in 2013 and 2014. But the increase expires on Thursday -- just weeks after the Obama administration told the Supreme Court that doctors and other providers had no legal right to challenge the adequacy of payments they received from Medicaid.
Doomed to fail
Well, doctors are having none of it. Their solution will be to simply stop seeing Medicaid patients, because the administration's wielding of the Obamacare law is leaving them little financial choice.
According to a study by the Urban Institute, the Times reported, the cuts to doctors will vary by state, but the average cut will be around 43 percent. So, more Americans are being covered by a tax-supported entitlement that is cutting payments to providers by nearly half; that will result in fewer providers seeing Medicaid patients.............
Doctors' groups, meanwhile, are already warning that access to care will suffer for patients on federally subsidized health coverage plans.
Dr. David A. Fleming, president of the American College of Physicians, which represents internal medicine specialists, told the Times some patients would have less access to care after the cuts. As such, it would make no sense to reduce Medicaid payments "at a time when the population enrolled in Medicaid is surging," he said.
But the problem is that taxpayers are on the hook for the extended coverage, and at a time when the federal budget deficit is more than $18 trillion -- with unfunded liabilities (like Obamacare) raising that amount to more than $120 trillion -- it is obvious that the program is not sustainable.............
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048214_Obamacare_Medicaid_payments_health_care_rat ioning.html#ixzz3OBAGHKx7
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Bankrupt government slashing payments to doctors by 43%; medicare patients to be rejected nationwide
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
If you recall, the entire purpose behind Obamacare, according to the president and the law's backers, was only to insure something like 14 or 15 million people, because at the time the measure was being debated, the vast majority of Americans -- well over 80 percent -- had health insurance. What's more, the bulk of those insured had private sector plans, and most were insured through employers; the number of Americans on taxpayer-subsidized coverage, like Medicaid, was minimal.
Obamacare is beginning to change that dynamic, however, as noted by the administration's new enrollment figures released a couple of weeks ago: According to CNN/Money, some 8.7 million more Americans are now enrolled in Medicaid as of August than were a year earlier. And Medicaid expansion is at the heart of the Affordable Care Act (though you would think, in a free-market economy, the goal of any health insurance reform effort would be to put more people into private-sector plans, not hook them on a taxpayer-subsidized plan).
There is no doubt that, because of the Affordable Care Act, more Americans are actually covered under health insurance. The bad news, however, is that the insurance "coverage" is going to be little more than coverage in name only.
Pseudo-coverage
As reported by The New York Times:
Just as millions of people are gaining insurance through Medicaid, the program is poised to make deep cuts in payments to many doctors, prompting some physicians and consumer advocates to warn that the reductions could make it more difficult for Medicaid patients to obtain care.
This is how the law was designed to "save money" -- by placing more Americans on a taxpayer-supported program, then cutting payments to the very doctors who were expected to see and treat the newly covered.
The Times continued:
The Affordable Care Act provided a big increase in Medicaid payments for primary care in 2013 and 2014. But the increase expires on Thursday -- just weeks after the Obama administration told the Supreme Court that doctors and other providers had no legal right to challenge the adequacy of payments they received from Medicaid.
Doomed to fail
Well, doctors are having none of it. Their solution will be to simply stop seeing Medicaid patients, because the administration's wielding of the Obamacare law is leaving them little financial choice.
According to a study by the Urban Institute, the Times reported, the cuts to doctors will vary by state, but the average cut will be around 43 percent. So, more Americans are being covered by a tax-supported entitlement that is cutting payments to providers by nearly half; that will result in fewer providers seeing Medicaid patients.............
Doctors' groups, meanwhile, are already warning that access to care will suffer for patients on federally subsidized health coverage plans.
Dr. David A. Fleming, president of the American College of Physicians, which represents internal medicine specialists, told the Times some patients would have less access to care after the cuts. As such, it would make no sense to reduce Medicaid payments "at a time when the population enrolled in Medicaid is surging," he said.
But the problem is that taxpayers are on the hook for the extended coverage, and at a time when the federal budget deficit is more than $18 trillion -- with unfunded liabilities (like Obamacare) raising that amount to more than $120 trillion -- it is obvious that the program is not sustainable.............
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/048214_Obamacare_Medicaid_payments_health_care_rat ioning.html#ixzz3OBAGHKx7